Cash on Demand
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| Directed by | Quentin Lawrence |
| Written by | David T. Chantler |
| Starring | Peter Cushing |
| Music by | Wilfred Josephs |
| Cinematography | Arthur Grant |
| Edited by | Eric Boyd-Perkins |
| Distributed by | Hammer Film Productions |
Release dates | October 1961 |
Running time | 80 min (also shown as 60, 84, and 88) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ₤37,000[1] |
Cash on Demand is a 1961 British thriller film directed by Quentin Lawrence and starring Peter Cushing.[2] The film company Hammer Film Productions invested the equivalent of £37,000 in 2009 currency to produce the film. Columbia began distribution of the film in the United States on 20 December 1961, and screenings continued until April in some major cities.
Plot
Two days before Christmas, a bogus insurance investigator conducts a meticulous small-town bank robbery. A stagy but suspenseful set-piece reworking of the Scrooge story in which an urbane, but ruthless, thief induces the complicity of a fastidious bank manager with threats against his family.
Cast
- Peter Cushing as Harry Fordyce
- André Morell as Colonel Gore-Hepburn
- Richard Vernon as Pearson
- Norman Bird as Sanderson
- Kevin Stoney as Detective Inspector Mason
- Barry Lowe as Harvill
- Edith Sharpe as Miss Pringle
- Lois Daine as Sally
- Alan Haywood as Kane
- Vera Cook as Mrs. Fordyce
- Charles Morgan as Detective Sergeant Collins
References
- ↑ Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes, The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films, Titan Books, 2007 p 69
- ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28903
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